Chevy Nova: GM's Best Small Car
The history of the Chevy Nova. From it's humble beginnings as the Chevy II, Nova survived and even thrived for 17 model years. The first generation (1962-1965) Nova was a compact car made to compete with the Ford Falcon, and copied (and improved on) its design in a lot of ways. The second generation (1966-1967) saw the Nova stay true to it's original design philosophy. It got a more elegant look based off of the Super Nova concept. Generation two also saw the 350hp Nova SS. The third generation (1968-1974) took the Nova from the height of the muscle car era into the gas crisis. The fastest Nova's were produced at the time. Nova SS had a 396CI/375HP big block. The ultra rare and valuable Yenko Deuce's were made in 1969 and 1970. The fourth generation (1975-1979) refined the Nova's philosophy of affordable transportation that can be fun. Eventually GM's fleet was downsized and Nova was squeezed out of the lineup.
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A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat 1-8 people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people rather than cargo. There are over 1.6 billion cars in use worldwide as of 2025. The French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first steam-powered road vehicle in 1769, while the Swiss inventor François Isaac de Rivaz designed and constructed the first internal combustion-powered automobile in 1808. The mode...
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